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McDowall's setting of Isaac Watts' Cradle Hymn is beautifully tender, coloured by its rich harmonies, suspensions, and chromatic notes. The melodies are complimented by sustained 'oo's and 'ah's and r...

This is an energetic setting of a text by Jennifer Thorp that celebrates and encourages festivities during Christmas time. With a fast tempo, Young's lively melodies are full of syncopated rhythms and...

This thought-provoking carol takes up the topical theme of the plight of refugees, drawing parallels with the stories and reception of Christ's birth. The text, by the composer, alludes to familiar li...

Setting a contemporary poem by Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Heart-in-Waiting is a rich, expressive carol with sonorous chords and a deep, rich sound. Ideal for mixed-voice choirs looking for an evocati...

This lively and uplifting carol sets a joyful fifteenth-century Christmas text by James Ryman.

Combining the evocative Emily Dickinson poem Before the ice and the Latin responsory for Christmas day O magnum mysterium, this carol has rich textures and harmonies and a sensitive text setting that...

This affecting carol was composed in memory of Alan Greaves, the organist from Sheffield who was murdered on his way to Midnight Mass in 2012. The text, The Bethlehem Star by Gerard Manley Hopkins, is...

This collection presents some of most attractive carols by the composer Charles Wood and the hymnodist, antiquarian, linguist, and musician G.R. Woodward, who both composed his own music and provided...

Three jewels of English carols from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in practical editions.

Owain Park's arrangement of John Rutter's secular carol presents a new take on this Christmas classic, drawing on Rutter's evocative orchestral colours to create this characterful arrangement. This ar...

This subtle setting of the popular carol is soft and gentle, never louder than mezzo-piano. The ethereal background starts in a high register with a repeated figure that evokes tranquility. A differen...

Setting words by the composer, this fast gospel-style piece requires strong voices and plenty of energy. This dazzling spiritual features blues-inspired melodies and jazzy harmonies, and also offers a...

The traditional carol Notre divin Maître comes from a collection known as Noëls Anciens de la Nouvelle-France (Ancient Carols of New France). The melody derives from an old drinking song but has been...

This carol describes how the ringing of church bells evokes the events of the first Christmas, and Karsten Gundermann's arrangement uses the lower voices to evoke the sound of bells. This version of t...

This beautiful setting of a medieval English text is simple yet effective, written in Assersohn's clear and approachable style. With tender 'lullay, lullow's, lilting phrases, and gentle modal inflect...

This is an upbeat original setting of the well-known Latin text. Rambunctious, hearty, and in a sophisticated modal style, it is suitable for both church and concert performance by experienced choirs.

With words by the composer, this tender piece expresses gratitude and awe for the redeeming power of the Christ-child. Replete with rich contrasting harmonies, the changing metre and effective phrasin...

This reflective winter carol features a prominent melody line, taken in two verses by the tenor soloist, which is supported by a gentle accompanying figure in the other voices. The minor tonality refl...

In this gentle lullaby, poet Charles Bennett reflects upon the promise held in the dreams of a sleeping child. The choir opens and closes the carol, providing a rich cushion of harmony on which the so...

A medieval English carol for solo baritone and unaccompanied ATBarB. The setting is full of gentle hemiola and canonic effects, and makes much use of parallel sixths and thirds.

McDowall brings to life a mystical, brooding nativity text by Nicholas Dakin with dramatic octatonic melodies and parallel movement in fourths and fifths. The propulsive 6/8 metre is decorated with du...

In this arrangement of the Appalachian folk carol, Mack Wilberg provides a gentle harmonization suitable for a lullaby to the Christ child. A slight sense of foreboding is introduced in the central mi...

Toby Young's original setting refreshes this well-known text with a masterful and memorable melody that is imbued with an indelible tenderness. Young makes use of effective textural changes and syncop...

This gentle and tender anthem is suitable for all church and cathedral choirs. Offprinted from the collection Alan Bullard Anthems.

Barnett has kept the straightforward feeling of the original setting and added a bit of harmonic variation through the use of canonic textures and the Lydian mode. Offprinted from the collection An Am...